02219cam a22003618i 4500 220703 220703 20774121 OSt 20230504134044.0 181207s2019 miu b 001 0 eng c 2018036382 9780801099625 (cloth : alk. paper) LBSOR/DLC eng rda NPTS DLC pcc PN56.B5 J44 2019 821.009/3822 JEF 23 Jeffrey, David Lyle, 1941- author. 21260 Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination / David Lyle Jeffrey. 1901 Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2019] pages cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Poetry and the voice of God -- Paraphrase and theater: Bonaventure's retracing the arts to theology and literary evangelism -- Quotation and inflection: Dante and Chaucer on The sermon on the mount -- Egyptian gold: biblical transformations of Ovid in The Canterbury tales -- Irony and misreading: courtly love and marriage according to henry viii -- Poetry in preaching, prayer, and pastoral care: John Donne and George Herbert -- Habitual music: the influence on poets of the King James Bible -- Conclusion and form for the person in modern poetry -- The conversion poems of Margaret Avison -- Meditation and gratitude: the enduringly beautiful changes of Richard Wilbur -- Epiphanies of a father's love: Anthony Hecht and Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Appendix: can Faustus be saved? the fragile future of our common book. "A highly acclaimed professor of literature opens up the treasury of biblical tradition among the English poets, both past and present, showing them to be fine interpreters of Scripture who are well attuned to its music"-- Provided by publisher. Bible In literature. 7906 Religious poetry History and criticism. 7907 Bible and literature. 7908 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NPTS NPTS BK 2023-05-04 Donated 0 821.009/3822 JEF NPTS005176 2023-05-04 00:00:00 2023-05-04 BK